I am making a cake for a birthday, my first paid cake. She wants the color to be Lavender. I have looked at Michaels, and here but have not found this color, can anyone help me to either find it our make it. Would I be able to use the violet in a VERY small amount?

Lavender and violet are made by mixing red and blue. Lavender has a bigger amount of blue.
You can have a try. Take a small amount of buttercream, icing, what ever you want to color and put in some blue. It should be kind of baby blue and add a little bit of red. Try to add the color in very small amounts and don't get too dark.

Have fun!

Luggi

SORRY!

I just noticed that your violet and my violet are not the same!!!!!!!

Wiltons violet seems to have a very lavender color to me!

My violet is your purple! But the mixing instruction was right. Lavender is more blue, purple is more red.

Differnt countries different colors!

Sorry!

Luggi

Thank you very much Luggi I appreciate the tip

I used the wiltons violet in a small amount and got a very pretty lavender colour.

I achieve Lavender with wilton or Americolors Violet and then a touch of pink.Otherwise the lavender will turn a blue/grey.

Yes, be sure to test your color. Lavender fades! you won't wany a grey cake.

how fast does it fade. I will make it the night before. I work full time and will bring in to work the day she needs it. would it fade that fast?

You make lavender by mixing Rose Pink with a smaller amount of violet.

Keep you lavendar out of direct sun and fluorescent light. It turns quickly, but you will not notice if you are in fluorescent lights.

Learned the hard way on a deadline. Everything looked lovely until I put the flowers I was working on into daylight. OMG I never saw such a putrid shade of gray-green. Spent well into the early morning hours remaking all the flowers for the cake that had to be delivered in the morning.

Happy decorating,
Junebuggey